Hooray for your great great grandfather. I refuse to think of Jim Bowie and Davie Crockett anything but the heroes they are were!
My Houston relatives tell me Santa Ana was defeated because he was in a tent with one of his 14 year old female “friends!” And had no time to order his troops into battle.
A big shoutout to the Texicans!
Hence our other state song, “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” The “yellow rose” was a “high yellow” free black woman whom Santa Ana had captured. She most likely wasn’t entertaining him on her initiative but from his orders. Still, she was enough of a distraction that the Battle of San Jacinto caught him with his pants on the ground, literally.